Kouri Richins Trial: He Told His Family She Was Going to Kill Him. Then He Died.
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Eric Richins didn't just die. According to testimony in his wife's murder trial, he saw it coming — and said so. He told his family to look at Kouri if anything happened to him. He met secretly with a divorce attorney and instructed her not to communicate by email because he was afraid Kouri would read it. He went to an estate planning attorney with concerns about his sons.
He was found dead on March 4th, 2022, with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system.
Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty. But two weeks of testimony in Summit County, Utah have produced a case built on her own words — texts to her boyfriend weeks before Eric died, a message to a friend saying "if I die, Eric did it," a text after his death saying "they will not take from me what is mine," and body cam footage of her telling a deputy the night Eric died that everything had been fine.
Prosecutors also allege she attempted to poison him on Valentine's Day, three weeks before his death. A friend testified Eric told the story himself — like it was funny.
The defense has genuine ammunition: a meth-positive immunized witness whose story changed, a drug supplier who walked back his account, and a cause of death the medical examiner listed as undetermined. This episode covers all of it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.5 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:06.6 | The trial of Corey Richens has been quite a dandy so far. |
| 0:12.0 | We're going to get into some of the most compelling moments of the case. |
| 0:18.2 | It is picking back up on Tuesday, the 10th of March. |
| 0:25.5 | So far, we have nine days of testimony, and a few days after Eric Richens was found no longer alive on the floor of his bedroom, |
| 0:35.2 | his housekeeper picked up the phone and called his wife. |
| 0:38.8 | Why? Why would the housekeeper? I mean, other than, I'm so sorry, this is horrible. |
| 0:43.4 | Well, you see, the housekeeper Carmen Laubert needed to know. She'd been the one making runs, |
| 0:49.4 | buying pills, making or taking, I should say, cash from the driveway, delivering the baggies. |
| 0:56.5 | She'd done it four times and now Eric Richens was dead. She called Corey. |
| 1:01.3 | Please tell me the pills were not for him. |
| 1:05.9 | Corey Richens' answer came without hesitation. He died of a brain aneurysm, she said. |
| 1:13.1 | That was it. No tears, no panic. |
| 1:16.0 | No moment of fracture. Just the answer, clean, calm, delivered to the person. |
| 1:20.9 | The one person on earth who knew exactly what those pills were. At least she thought she did. |
| 1:28.9 | And exactly where they'd gone. |
| 1:32.2 | So you might be thinking, oh, God, did something happen with those pills? |
| 1:36.1 | Because he's otherwise a healthy, fairly young man. |
| 1:41.6 | Nope, Corey says it was a brain aneurysm with confidence, with a vibrato. |
| 1:46.9 | Just, yeah, that's it. |
| 1:48.6 | Of course, don't worry. |
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